LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 52, 20 June 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Join Watsonls Book Club and obtain all the latest fiction. Sheep banners ! Sheep Farmers ! I ,et me handle this season’s Wool Crutchings, etc., for you. Highe.-t Piices secured with Prompt Payment. Full particulars from H. R. McCarthy, Cash buyer of Hides, Calf and Sheep Skins, Wool, Fungus, etc. Commerce Street, Kaitaia. A demonstration of the Warren Farmer Milking Plant will take place at Mr Dudley Jameson’s farm on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. The simplicity and ease with which this plant mav be Used will be shown when Mr Jameson’s daughters aged 12 and 10 years respectively will work the machine. J. Jones, General Auctioneers and Merchants, City Markets, Auck’and, handle Pigs, Poultry, General Farm Produce, etc., all the year round. Pigs sold same d.y as arrival in Auckland Catalogues and full particulars as to prices of Household Lines, Groceries, Hardware, Wire Staples, etc., obtainable from H. R. McCarthy, Local Agent, opposite new building Bank of Australasia, Commerce Street, Kaitaia. Roman Catholic services for next Sunday are : Awanui Mass 9 a.in; Kaitaia Mas-, 10.30 a.m (Library Hajl).

' , : ng of the Kaitaia ’ r 1 i> 1 . . Fenners Union on ;. . o v tvi King, a welcome was ‘ isrs B J Carroll i' ; b-iry), T Carswell and D" j \) nrn !y (Hawkes Bay), by the ;■ all nr:n Mr E C Matthews. Replying Mr Carroll said the people in the North were favoured with a mild climate and a heavrainfall. From what they had seen of tbe district there was land here but it wanted working. A drawback to the district was its isolation from markets ancflack of railway communication. Another point that b id impressed him had been the hea'vy rating. If the drainage rates were* enforced, these and the county rates would leave nothing for the farmer. From what they had seen of the place there was a future ahead of the North, but the land would have to be greatly unproved on what it is to-day for the best result to be secured. Now is the time to plant Fruit Trees, Shrubs and Plants. Goo. Sinclair’s are. the best. Catalogues, etc. from H. R. McCarthy, local Agent., Dont forget the Boy Scouts’ Benefit at the Princess Theatre tcn ght. Speaking at the farewell to Mr and Mrs Ambrose stevens at [■ • Thorn cn Friday evening Mr C Park r senr said: “It is with 1 < p regret that Mr and Mrs Stevens are leaying Fairburn and I going from amongst us. Mr Stevens has been a man of great j value to our district and the ser--1 23 which he has rendered to She Methodist Church will be ru r ombered being a man of j sympathy and support in every I way Hu services will be greatly missed as he is a man i shown limself to be a peace-maker. We wish Mr and r '*rs St-yens a'l ‘he good wishes we can and God’s blessing on themselves arid their family in their new home.” s of Sweetwater Awanui advertise in th it issue a spieiu’ d line ot goods" at cut I prices. Although there is no A m t es j Society in Kaitaia it is gratifying ! ;o ]■ 1 nv there are some residents who aim a: beautifying their pr >- j perties. Quite recently Mr W Farfimond and Mr BLn Matthews j planted a belt of trees along the frontage of Mr Matthew's’ property taping the Awanui Road. Mr LoganS Morpeth also has planted a number of shrubs on the roadside of his farm and these in each instance should hav# a beautifying effect upon the properties concerned. One of the most noticeable defects about Kaitaia is the almost entire absence of any attempt at beautifying the town and its environs. Now that the residents mentioned have indicated a desire to make more beautiful their surroundings perhaps others will do likewise and thus be the means of making the town more beautiful than it is at present. The rain at last week-end, resulted in a heavy flood m the Kaeo district. Several slips have occurred on the Kaeo-Whanga-roa Road; workmen have been engaged removing them and it is now possible to get through. Church of England services for next Sunday are : Kaitaia II a.m and 7 p.m ; Awanui 2 p.m ; Mangonui 11 a.m H.C. Dr Rix lost his motorcar in the flood waters from the Waikanae stream on the Ninety Mile Beach on Saturday evening. They were on their way back from Te Palci Station whither Dr Rix had gone to attend a patient for the Mangonui Hospital Board, when the car was overtaken by the flood. Mr JT B Taaffe who originally set out to drive the doctor to the patient but who had Ids car stuck in the river at Ahipara, accompanied Dr Rix in the Liter's car to Te Paki, lost his shoes in the flood and had to walk miles in the sand without boots and was very footsore as a result. Every effort was made to save he car, but without effect. It was insured for £2OO,